Our little conqueror had another night of several desaturations. A desaturation or "desat" is a period of time when the oxygen concentration in Ella's blood falls below a certain percentage for a sustained period of time. For Ariella a desat is any her O2 concentration falls below 89% and remain that low for longer than 30 seconds. This is particulalry dangerous becuase she is not able to effectively exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen. If she remains in desaturation for too long there are serious long term health risks. For these reasons and the overall toll this has had on our little warrior's body we agreed with the PICU team to intubate Ariella again. She was successfully reintubate at about 4:30 this morning and is now resting. We are still in the process of developing the plan for the week, but we wanted to keep the team up to date as to what is happening with our angel. Thank you for following the blog and thank you for continuing to care. We are all more than conquerors.
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